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Hello community, first post, etc.There are Ryzen embedded options if this will meet your need, using Ryzen 2500U boards in effectively a Thin-ITX format either as a pre-built PC in a case with RAM and an m2 disk which comes out at roughly $400-420 plus shipping via AliExpress, or if you just want the board it's about $280-300 plus shipping as far as I can see.There are pluses and minuses - there are two 1Gbps LAN ports onboard (yay!), but they are RTL8111s (boo!). The 2500U is reasonable on the compute side without being exceptional - if you put any credibility into Passmark it scores 6,587, which puts it almost exactly half way between an i3 8100T and an i5 8500T. The graphics are Vega based, and indeed the box seems to be aimed at electronic signage so it comes with 4 DP outputs which support 4K; however this is not very useful for people like me who like the idea of it as a very small, quiet, firewall/router running pf/OPNsense with most things turned on - at least until I found out about the Realtek LAN. You are limited to SODIMMs for your RAM (and a 32GB limit).You can probably argue that it's not much cheaper than buying a A320-based board with a CPU socket you can fill yourself and less flexible, but this may fill a need in the short term so I thought it worth raising.
Hello community, first post, etc.
There are Ryzen embedded options if this will meet your need, using Ryzen 2500U boards in effectively a Thin-ITX format either as a pre-built PC in a case with RAM and an m2 disk which comes out at roughly $400-420 plus shipping via AliExpress, or if you just want the board it's about $280-300 plus shipping as far as I can see.
There are pluses and minuses - there are two 1Gbps LAN ports onboard (yay!), but they are RTL8111s (boo!). The 2500U is reasonable on the compute side without being exceptional - if you put any credibility into Passmark it scores 6,587, which puts it almost exactly half way between an i3 8100T and an i5 8500T. The graphics are Vega based, and indeed the box seems to be aimed at electronic signage so it comes with 4 DP outputs which support 4K; however this is not very useful for people like me who like the idea of it as a very small, quiet, firewall/router running pf/OPNsense with most things turned on - at least until I found out about the Realtek LAN. You are limited to SODIMMs for your RAM (and a 32GB limit).
You can probably argue that it's not much cheaper than buying a A320-based board with a CPU socket you can fill yourself and less flexible, but this may fill a need in the short term so I thought it worth raising.
